June 2013; Toddling into our second year!

[BeanCalledPickle]

New thread ladies:-) I think we filled about ten threads when pregnant and this is only our fourth post natally!

Those who have toddlers who happily babble in their cot before falling asleep, how did you get to this point? DS screams like he is being attacked whenever he is put into his cot!

With DD there came a point when she was just ready to do it, I think it was just before she turned 1. We didn't do anything special. I'd fed her to sleep for a long time; I tried to put her down awake one day and she got herself off to sleep quite easily. Gradually she took less and less time to get herself off to sleep. Now, we put her in, she gets straight into her comfy sleeping position with her bear and sheep and lies there in silence for a few minutes before dropping off.

Kind of the same here, though initial fuss was ignored so she learnt that this wouldn't result in getting back up. This is not every night. Painful teeth etc disrupts it! Ultimately I work full time, I am 23 weeks pregnant and just don't have the inclination to deal with moaning. So it's ignored!

This is all coming back to my chat about duvet vs sleeping bag. until Sunday she seemed to relish going to bed just so she could play with her teddies. she's also started taking a book to bed with her. obviously she can't read but she seems to like looking at the pictures. I think we might try half an hour later tonight.

like you bean I don't stick to nursery's crazy schedule. again she seems to cope okay with this dual life!

7pm ish to bed here, usually max 45 mins of her talking and playing with her toys and then asleep. Wakes usually about 12.30 and 4 and them up at 6. She really doesn't like sleep.

Today this could all be even worse, she is clearly about to go down with something and feel asleep about 2.30 for an hour that was after a nap this morning too.

Meant to be going to a panto tomorrow, something tells me we might not.

Oh and re the babbling in cot bit, it took a couple of nights of dd screaming blue murder before she realised I wasn't changing my mind. This all tied in with stopping bf as until then she tended to fall asleep feeding. I really was a mean mummy at that point!

Some nights she still has a little tantrum over it, I ignore and carry on with whatever I am doing but she knows I'm still around and soon gives in.

They are funny little things aren't they:-) I don't like handing out advice as I think that implys that I somehow know best which I certainly don't. However the most settled babies I know are the ones who have consistency in their routine. The most disturbed one I know is regularly taken long haul, has her naps in the pram and car and when she wakes in the night is regularly given milk, biscuits and tv until she wants to go back to sleep. That is not what happens here!!

I think you're right Bean. Ultimately we all do what works best for our own babies, but they do also seem to respond well to routine and cues.

DS stopped being fed to sleep ages ago (mostly because he stopped falling asleep, rather than me making a conscious choice). We introduced story after milk then, and then had a month or so of popping him in cot and reading him to sleep and this gradually became a shorter story and sitting quietly in the corner of his room, etc.

We are going out this evening by ourselves for the very first time since DS was born It is the strangest sensation!

Bean, we had to go via sheets and blanket from sleeping bag to duvet as DD refused to accept it too. After about 6 weeks of those she took to the duvet just fine. Not sure why, but she loves snuggling in her duvet now.

We ignore her at night unless it's clear she's really upset / not going back to sleep. Sometimes she gets milk, mostly she doesn't. It's a judge it on the situation type thing. She has hell with her teeth, so that affects our decisions too.

She's started to eat loads recently. Her favourite is still chilli and rice though. I accidentally made it a bit hot last week and she still wolfed it down!

I'm back at work now as well, so life is exhausting with a 5 month old who still wakes and a 5.30 get up time for the 6.30 house exit. I've just asked to drop 1 day in 10, so I have every other Friday off, just so I get some extra rest. Hopefully they will agree.

Gosh those five months have flown (for me, anyway)! You must be exhausted - I hope your work agree to the day off. Will you really get any rest being at home with the two of them though? How's your DH finding it now with the two of them? I'm starting to panic...

It'll be a rest in that I don't have to get up and out of the house on that day (and I get up 15 mins' earlier than needed so I can do housework to help DH). So I think it will be a benefit, yes.

DH is frazzled! It's all about tag team pooing / needing assistance. But it should get easier as DD gets more independent. He's good with them though. :-)

And yes, time certainly flew. :-(

HH are you asking to compress hours? So ten days in nine? Was thinking of you the other day. The lease on our building is up and there is much discussion about government litigation moving to the north. There's already an office in Leeds and bootle. Great job opportunities for people like you; when will you qualify? Buggered if I'm moving though. I will go back to doing parliament work, though I do love litigation.

Is it good being back? I'm having less time off this time as I don't particularly enjoy being at home endlessly! Work gives me a lot more purpose and motivation. Although I feel shit at the moment! But am hanging on till 37 weeks if at all possible!

Hope it's not all moving; that's the area my job is in! I'm not being informed of anything work-related while I'm off so it wouldn't surprise me if it's all change when I go back.

Who do you work for? I'm in Tsol and do litigation for the Home Office. The main building in kemble street is the one the lease is up on. You should be on a KIT email list!

The H.O. too and hahaha at the idea of being put on an email list. My accrued annual leave wasn't put through until after I'd been 'back in the office' for over a month so I think that might have been going a bit far!

Bean, I asked to do that (but work the compression at home as I'm already out if the house for 12 hours a day) and it was refused. So I now have to take the financial hit of losing the money for 1 day a fortnight. Thankfully it's not hideously bad, but unnecessary. Shame my employer isn't very family friendly / flexible!

I qualify on Sept 29th. An office in Bootle?! I'd love to work there (not actually because Bootle is great, but it is only 40 mins door to door). I'll have to look into that, thank you. :-)

Being at work is OK, I'm just taking a while to adjust to the getting up / long days out of the house. I'll get there!

How do such tiny humans produce so much vomit?! Happily seem to be over that now, but three loads of washing tells me it definitely happened.

Tomorrow will now be Monday. except for the visit from the "father of the year" luckily I don't have to repeat that

Oh dear, so your little one had it too. Horrible, isn't it.

cup it was dreadful. We had another bout at 11pm last night. She then slept for a bit and was wide awake from 1.30am but inconsolable. she fell asleep again at 7 until 8.30.
I have cancelled today as well. work will be so happy and no doubt I'll get a lecture next week when I go in but two nights with just two hours sleep I am on my knees.

Pffft, Pink. Work can whistle! You need to look after yourself. I hope your DD feels better soon and you both get some rest.

Poor thing, I hope she gets better soon. It lasted over a week with DD.

Thank you ladies.

Mrs - my mum said similar about work. It wouldn't have been appreciated if I had gone in, but very little is. Always a draw back of working for a small private company.

Cup - did the sickness last a week? Dd has been of colour since last week, think it's all be leading up to this.

Doesn't help she's quite constipated at the moment. seems to go from one extreme to the other in that department. Gp looking into it but not particularly doing anything right now.

The sickness was on and off for over a week. It was at its worst for the first couple of days as DD still tried to eat, disappeared for a few when she totally lost her appetite and and then came back again when she attempted to eat again (not as bad though). We had to go out and buy an extra sleeping bag and we hadn't used muslins in a year - good job we still had them handy! DD was the opposite to constipated - we had a few poonamis which we hadn't had since she was newborn!

We would have gone to the GP if she had been continuously sick for a week but we didn't bother (was over Christmas too). She had a cough which has only just gone a couple of weeks later and her nose is still snotty (thought it had got better, but no). The worst thing was the clinginess though.

funny you mentioned muslins Cup! I turfed dd's out too! She now carries one around with her and wipes her mouth every so often!
so far so good today, altho it's been quite late the last two nights. But am hoping it's just sleep tonight!
Dd is snotty too. so many things going around isn't there. poor blighters. The clinginess is a slight pain. My mum came down for a bit today to help and luckily dd was happy to have new arms to hold on to!

Sympathies with the clingy babes. It's hard hard hard to have a day with a clingy tiddler. Especially as they are heavier than they used to be!

Our muslin squares never got put away. Still good for nose wiping and mopping up 'stuff'.

DS slept from midday until 3pm today and is already asleep for the night. I hope he's not coming down with something